Physician groups welcomed new payments for coaching, group visits and behavioral health integration, but warned that cuts due Jan. 1 will take an act of Congress to stop.
Most physicians face a 2.31% conversion factor cut in January, while CMS pared back its same-day payment reduction and pushed the end of traditional MIPS to 2031.
A pediatrician won a Senate seat in South Carolina, an OB-GYN lost one in Kansas, and South Dakota voters kept Medicaid expansion in their constitution.
Control of Congress, 30 governorships in Medicaid work-requirement states and eight statewide health care measures were on Tuesday's ballot. Here is what each one would change for physicians and their patients.
After private equity firms bought for-profit hospices, Medicare paid $993 more per hospice encounter and stays ran 6.3 days longer, with no increase in visits.